Google chitter chatter

Today I have tried iGoogle Chat. It’s sort of Skype like and ok but I can’t see it taking over the world. It might be more relevant if I made iGoogle my homepage but on that I am putting my foot down. There doesn’t seem to be a toolbar flag facility, so you have to be looking at iGoogle to know when a message has arrived.

I have rationalised my iGoogle page and changed the themes on each of my tabs (a tip I gratefully picked up from Ms Mongoose’s blog)… check out the turtles on my CILIP tab, in ‘real’ life their little legs are frenzied!

2 comments

I must admit I’ve never bothered with chat via iGoogle. Where I have found it quite useful is on Google Docs – not only can you see who else is looking at a shared document but you can chat with the other share-ee in real time too. Cunning stuff : )

Glad I’ve found a partner in tabbing. iGoogle is such a Marmite thing – some people are very unimpressed with it, but for others (like me) it Just Works.